Law on the Agricultural Rentenbank. Country/Territory Germany Document type Legislation Date 1949 (2017) Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Agricultural & rural development Keyword Agricultural development Business/industry/corporations Credit Financial agricultural measures Institution Monitoring Protection of environment Geographical area Alps, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Western Europe Abstract Agricultural Rentenbank is a federal institution under public law with its main office in Frankfurt am Main that is established to promote agriculture and rural areas developments. The bank implements support measures, in particular through financing for agriculture, including forestry, horticulture and fisheries, and the upstream and downstream sectors, sales and storage of agricultural and food products, agriculture-related environmental protection, promotion of renewable energies and renewable raw materials from agriculture, spread of organic farming, animal welfare in agriculture, improvement of the infrastructure of rural areas and agricultural consumer protection. The Law further provides for the body and structure of the bank, management, assemblies, supervision and dissolution. This Law consists of 20 Articles and Articles 18 & 19 are deleted. Full text German Website www.gesetze-im-internet.de